Just wanted to write a real quick entry mentioning that I'm back. :) I haven't had the time nor the ambition to sit down at the computer for awhile and really do anything... I'm still on super-camp mode. That happens to you when you hike over 20 miles a day everyday. :) You get that much fresh air and exercise, you get a little crazy and don't like sitting around at home anymore. :)

I had an amazing time at camp. I made some great friends, and have already made plans to see one of them in the near future. That'd be Sheila... the only other girl camper. She lives near St. Cloud. She'll be coming down to my house for the weekend coming up in early september, and then we'll be going to ren fest together. :) I love Sheila. I miss her so much! And Brent, and everyone else too. Ugh... it was so hard to leave! I had to wait for everyone else to leave before I did.... I couldn't handle leaving. I don't just miss the people... I miss the smell of the air. I miss the food. I even miss the exercise and hiking! Everything is just so wonderfully perfect while I'm there... except for being sick the first 2 days of camp... but even that I was able to get past. Sweating and grossness and not being able to bathe... I was fine with that. It doesn't matter there. It's a Star Lake thing. haha.

I did try to write in a diary while I was there... it didn't quite pan out like I wanted it to. I wrote in my diary fine the first like, 3 days, but after that I either didn't have the time, or I was unable to write the events of the day because there was just not enough words in the world to describe them. There are so many things that happened that I just can't describe, and it makes me sad because I want to share it with you guys, and write it down so that I can fully remember too... but I can't! And what I did actually write for my diary, I hate. It's all whining. I had food poisoning! I couldn't eat, and I was already feeling horrible because of the hiking. That happens when you sit on your ass for a year and do nothing. I was sweating bad too because it was terribly hot. it got up to 90 degrees within the first 3 days. But after that it cooled off, I got used to the hiking, I actually started to enjoy the work... I had friends there even. Sheila and Brent were my constant companions. Or maybe I just attached myself to them like a parasite... but either way. :) haha... either way, they actually talked to me and listened to me and we became super close. I became closer to Brent over the past 2 weeks than I have over the past year writing e-mails to him. Theres just something about that camp... it brings everyone so close to eachother. It hurts to leave!

Ugh! haha... I don't want to tell everything, so I should go. I work tomorrow, and I work Monday, but I'm off on Tuesday and Wednesday. I will try my hardest to write then! I might even write before that. :) I'll have my pictures uploaded to the computer too. You'll be able to see who I'm talking about.

Even though I like being back home... I so wish I was at camp right now listening to the crickets and the water hitting the beach. I can't believe it's gonna be a full year before I can go back... sad!! But than again... it's only a year. :)

(Molly- to answer your question... we don't get to bathe at camp because there aren't actual showers there. There is this huge barrel thing that spits out well water from spouts, but with very little water pressure. The best thing we have there is the lake, with it's natural cold springs. You throw a little biodegradable soap on and hop in the lake. Problem is, we're not supposed to do it in front of the campers... then you'd have so much soap and stuff in the lake, and some campers don't use the biodegradable soap so then that pollutes the lake... so ya. :) once or twice a week if you're lucky you get to actually bathe... but chances of actually doing it are slim. By swim time, we're all so tired, we all just go back to our cabins and nap. So we smell. :) haha... it's a Star Lake thing. haha... nothing brings you closer to someone than smelling like a yetti and spending 2 weeks with them.)